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<blockquote data-quote="Coastal Redneck" data-source="post: 144457" data-attributes="member: 11287"><p>Wingnut: "BRING ON THE PANTHERS & THE FALCONS!!! MY MONEY'S ON THE BIG CATS!!! WOOHOO!!!"</p><p></p><p>Moi: "Watch it, Wing, those pesky birds might be spoilers, playing in their own house down in 'The Big A'..."</p><p></p><p>That's what truck drivers call Atlanta, GA---I know this because I used to pull a regular run there all the time, delivering freight on the West Side. The night before delivery, I would shut down in the Petro on I-285, an exit or two up the loop from I-20. That place was special, it reminded me of Stalag 13, the high perimeter fences topped with razor wire to keep all the whacked-out ghetto zombies from roaming the lot, LOL. One night, while trashing around and drinking beer at the Petro after my usual inbound run, some hand keyed his CB mike and offered to buy a twelver for any other hand willing to go buy beer and brave the zombie crackerhead gauntlet after dark... there was a liquor store within short walking distance outside the gates and perimeter fence, you understand. To exit the fenced parking lot after dark was always dicey: if the roving crackerheads spotted you (as they always did), they would literally run toward you like freakin' zombies in the remake of "DAWN OF THE DEAD" (not the original movie, but the remake, where the zombies run like Ben Jonson on steroids). Anyway, that driver made his offer, but there were no volunteers, since everybody parked in the lot already knew the form. When the driver repeated his offer over the CB, I sensed an opportunity and keyed my reply:</p><p></p><p>"GEE, DRIVER, I'D LIKE TO HELP YA OUT, BUT I FORGOT MY KEVLAR!!!"</p><p></p><p>LOL. A bunch of other @$$hole truck drivers laughed when I said this. Just another classic moment in CB Babylon, that giant radio bar found in every major truck stop nationwide back in the day. As for the Dago-to-Atlanta run, it wasn't a bad run on the southern route: I-8 to I-10 to I-20, all the way into Atlanta from the I-10/20 split in West Texas. Not as far in terms of mileage as other dedicated routes and runs I used to make, but a good moneymaker while it lasted. That southern route was excellent in those days, scenic and wide open in places like Arizona, New Mexico & West Texas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coastal Redneck, post: 144457, member: 11287"] Wingnut: "BRING ON THE PANTHERS & THE FALCONS!!! MY MONEY'S ON THE BIG CATS!!! WOOHOO!!!" Moi: "Watch it, Wing, those pesky birds might be spoilers, playing in their own house down in 'The Big A'..." That's what truck drivers call Atlanta, GA---I know this because I used to pull a regular run there all the time, delivering freight on the West Side. The night before delivery, I would shut down in the Petro on I-285, an exit or two up the loop from I-20. That place was special, it reminded me of Stalag 13, the high perimeter fences topped with razor wire to keep all the whacked-out ghetto zombies from roaming the lot, LOL. One night, while trashing around and drinking beer at the Petro after my usual inbound run, some hand keyed his CB mike and offered to buy a twelver for any other hand willing to go buy beer and brave the zombie crackerhead gauntlet after dark... there was a liquor store within short walking distance outside the gates and perimeter fence, you understand. To exit the fenced parking lot after dark was always dicey: if the roving crackerheads spotted you (as they always did), they would literally run toward you like freakin' zombies in the remake of "DAWN OF THE DEAD" (not the original movie, but the remake, where the zombies run like Ben Jonson on steroids). Anyway, that driver made his offer, but there were no volunteers, since everybody parked in the lot already knew the form. When the driver repeated his offer over the CB, I sensed an opportunity and keyed my reply: "GEE, DRIVER, I'D LIKE TO HELP YA OUT, BUT I FORGOT MY KEVLAR!!!" LOL. A bunch of other @$$hole truck drivers laughed when I said this. Just another classic moment in CB Babylon, that giant radio bar found in every major truck stop nationwide back in the day. As for the Dago-to-Atlanta run, it wasn't a bad run on the southern route: I-8 to I-10 to I-20, all the way into Atlanta from the I-10/20 split in West Texas. Not as far in terms of mileage as other dedicated routes and runs I used to make, but a good moneymaker while it lasted. That southern route was excellent in those days, scenic and wide open in places like Arizona, New Mexico & West Texas. [/QUOTE]
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